The vast majority of DEA approaches assume that the decision making units under
assessment possess total autonomy in terms of resource allocation and production planning …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

There has been extensive research on the strategic choice between supply chain
centralization and decentralization. However, most research assumes complete …

High energy consumption by the industry of developing countries has led to the problems of
increasing emission of greenhouse gases (GHG)(primarily CO 2) and worsening energy …

Sustainability is an important agenda for retail businesses in the present times. To create
long-term value for customers, retail businesses are required to adopt approaches that can …

In many real scenarios, all decision-making units (DMUs) fall under the umbrella of a central
unit, such as banks, supermarkets and public universities, that has the power to supervise …

In this paper, we introduced a new generalized centralized resource allocation model which
extends Lozano and Villa's and Asmild et al.'s models to a more general case. In order to …

Accurately estimating and formulating the paths of energy-conservation and emission-
reduction for industrial sectors is of great significance for the coordinated development of …

The existing centralized resource allocation models often assume that all of the DMUs are
efficient after resource allocation. For the DMU with a very low efficiency score, it means the …

In the big data context, decision makers usually face the problem of evaluating
environmental efficiencies of a massive number of decision making units (DMUs) using the …